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  1. No-Tech Meditation
     … This is why the Buddha taught a Dhamma and a Vinaya. For laypeople, the Vinaya consists of the five and the eight precepts. For monks, of course, there’s a much larger body of precepts in the canonical Vinaya. But in every case, the precepts are there to make you sensitive to what you’re doing, to the consequences of what you’re doing … 
  2. Book search result icon Meditations 11 Glossary
     … deathless. Sankhara: Fabrication. Satipatthana: Establishing of mindfulness. The act of being ardent, alert, and mindful to stay with any of four things in and of themselves—body, feelings, mind-states, or mental qualities—while putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra. Vasana: Tendencies related to past kamma. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassana: Insight. Wat (Thai): Monastery.
  3. Potentials
     … He established the religion, established the Dhamma and the Vinaya to make it available to people so that they, too, could put an end to suffering. So as you sit here and meditate, ask yourself: What are the potentials here? There’ll be some bad ones, but there will also be some good ones. Why stew around in the bad ones? Why encourage them … 
  4. The Buddha’s Conventions
     … He taught Upali, the Vinaya expert, a series of tests. In every case, it was: When you put this into practice—and that’s what those conventions are meant for, to be put into practice—what are the results? If a teaching leads to harm, there’s something wrong. It’s not the genuine article. If it makes you burdensome on other people, if … 
  5. Delight
     … They look at the Dhamma and Vinaya of the Buddha, and notice that it had many analogous marvelous qualities as well. So when your practice begins to flag, remind yourself that you’ve got a good road map here, the most reliable one there is. It’s been tested for more than two thousand years. It deals with the big issues in life, issues … 
  6. Remembering Ajaan Fuang
     … He was very strict about the Vinaya, with very clear standards about what was proper and what was not proper, which made it very easy to live with him. Once you got a sense of what his standards were, you could stick by them. There were times when I would be criticized by some of the lay people for holding to Ajaan Fuang’s … 
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